I offer advice. I submit bug reports and feature requests. I admin and manage three Calckey servers, one of which is https://calckey.social. I help fund Calckey.
But the person who leads that project is @kainoa. They’ve done a stellar job of growing it.
But it's also not entirely @gruber's fault because the media doesn't really talk about the Fediverse, and when they do, it's as a synonym for "Mastodon".
How would @gruber know about the massive development efforts to build more user-friendly alternatives to Mastodon?
No one in the media talks about the growth of *key apps, and how they're now the #2 most used Fediverse platform.
Every single time I think my social media software isn’t ready to be shown to anyone, I just remember that #Bluesky hasn’t fixed their notifications and doesn’t even offer DMs—and 50,000 people use it, and the Tech Press believe it’s the greatest thing ever invented.
Yes, at calckey.social, we blocked mastodonapp.uk. This was not an arbitrary decision.
We received multiple reports of transphobia from mastodonapp.uk, with no action being taken from their mods. For the safety of our users, many who are transgender, we had to initiate defederation.
This was not a choice we made lightly, but our community’s safety comes first.
Bluesky's terms of use state: "We may terminate or suspend, in whole or in part, your access to and use of the Services, including suspending access to or terminating your ACCOUNT".
This is a very odd policy for a company that trumpets nomadic identity as its killer feature.
I mean, that's the whole reason why Bluesky built a whole new protocol instead of using ActivityPub, right?
If Bluesky can suspend your account without notice, what's the point?
It was getting continuously hammered by new registration requests. And 20 people managed to register during an hour when most people weren't even able to log in.
So now @kainoa will do some additional work to enable more scale, and we'll re-open registrations in the future.
